UTILITY MAINTENANCE CREW LEADER

The City of Anna, Texas is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

DESCRIPTION

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES

• Prioritize, assign, lead, review and participate in the work of subordinate employees.
• Perform scheduled and unscheduled preventative maintenance and repairs on the City's Utility systems in all weather conditions.
• Utilize a variety of complex equipment and monitoring techniques to locate lines, investigate issues and determine the cause of problems.
• Inspect equipment before and after use, perform maintenance activities, and report exceptional problems to the supervisor.
• Perform and recommend cost-effective repair, maintenance, and installation methods of utility lines.
• Install and maintain meters.
• Install and/or repair barricades, parking bumpers, and guard rails.
• Install new utility service connections.
• Lead workers at the job site as directed by the Supervisor; prepare daily activity logs.
• Confer with customers regarding service problems and report feedback to the Supervisor.
• Assist in the purchasing of supplies and equipment.
• Monitor the shoring of trenches and confined workspaces.
• Maintain accurate records. Document and track work orders and repairs.
• Oversee the detection of buried utility lines when Equipment Operators are digging.
• Assist supervisor in assessing the crew's needs to complete tasks safely and efficiently.
• Provide on-the-job training instruction or recommend training to new crew members.
• Monitor and evaluate quality, responsiveness, efficiency and effectiveness of assigned field operations methods and procedures.
• Participate in monitoring work area to ensure a safe working environment. Follow safety guidelines established by the assigned department.
• Conduct weekly safety meetings.
• Prepare analytical and statistical reports on operations and activities.
• Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

TYPICAL QUALIFICATIONS

High school or GED, plus 3 years related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Basic: Word Processing/Typing
Must possess a valid Class B CDL license when hired.
Must pass a pre-employment drug screen, criminal background check, and MVR check.
Minimum Class C and D/II equivalent TCEQ for Water Distribution or Wastewater Collection. Examples: Class C Water Distribution and Class I Collections. Class D Water and Class II or above Collection.
Ability to obtain C equivalents in Water and Wastewater within 12 months after accepting the position.
Bilingual in English and Spanish is preferred.

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

USE OF MACHINES, EQUIPMENT, AND/OR COMPUTERS
Regularly use complex machines and equipment (desktop/laptop computer and software, road construction, water distribution, wastewater collection machines and equipment, driver's license/CDL, etc.)

ENVIRONMENTAL /WORKING CONDITIONS
Outside or inside the working environment, there are potentially hazardous working conditions and life-threatening situations (fire, chemicals, electrical sources, heights, dangerous people, etc.) all the time per job duties and responsibilities. The following work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee encounters while performing essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing this job, the employee is regularly exposed to outdoor weather conditions, frequently exposed to work near moving mechanical parts, and occasionally exposed to work in high, precarious places, fumes, airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES
The physical activities described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations—moderate diversity, moderately physical. Work activities allow for a moderate amount of diversity in the performance of tasks that require somewhat diversified physical demands of the employee.
While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, talk, or hear; and frequently required to walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; occasionally required to sit, squat, climb, or balance, taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Explore our benefits of working for the City of Anna!

We offer a complete benefits package to full-time employees including health care, dental, vision, retirement, deferred compensation plans, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, long-term disability, holidays, vacation, and sick leave.